The New Critical Thinking: An Empirically Informed Introduction

by Barry Ward and Jack Lyons

This book aims to improve real-world critical thinking.

Traditional critical thinking texts neglect two crucial facts. First, as psychologists have shown, many of our mistakes are caused not by faulty formal reasoning but because we bypass it in favor of intuitive, often unreliable heuristics. Second, good critical thinking requires not only the proper assessment of inference but also of our premises: the evaluation of information sources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032317280
• ISBN13: 9781032317281
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"